.se "Checking for New Notes" The checknotes program checks the notesfiles specified by the NFSEQ environment variable to determine if there are new notes. The exit code is arranged to make the program useful in shell scripts: 0 (TRUE) is there are new notes, 1 (FALSE) otherwise. Use the ``-q'' option to receive a message There are new notes if one or more of the notesfiles have notes/responses written since the user's last entry time into that notesfile. The ``-n'' option is similar to the ``-q'' option, with the exception that it yields output when there are no new notes. The output of checknotes with the ``-n'' option is: There are no new notes Use ``-v'' to print the name of each notesfile with new notes/responses. The ``-s'' option is suitable for use in conditional expressions in shell scripts; no output is generated by this option.